Speaking at the Jan 2024 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, President Herzog of Israel stated that he wanted a better future for the Palestinians, who, he said, “are our neighbours”.
One must admit that Israel appears to be doing its level best in fulfilling this aspiration. It has only killed 25,000 of its neighbours in the last three months. As we have been told on numerous occasions, the death toll could be much worse if Israel, who has the world’s most moral army, did not observe the rules of war, among which are the principle of proportionate response and the safeguarding of civilians.
Well done Israel and President Herzog. It is clear that far from relating to your neighbours with “polite indifference”, as the Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky advised in his settler-colonial blueprint The Iron Wall, you are in fact going the extra mile and “showering” Palestinians with your particular brand of neighbourliness.
In an affectionate personal touch, President Herzog also signed an artillery shell before it was fired at his neighbours. With such attention and thoughtfulness to detail, who would not want Israel as neighbour?